Rana Florida, CEO, The Creative Class Group & Writer

Meet Rana Florida, CEO, The Creative Class Group, Huffington Post's "Your Startup Life" Columnist.

She is also the other of UPGRADE: Taking Your Life From Ordinatry To Extraordinary.  This book gathers the best practices not just from CEO's and business executives but from entrepreneurs, innovative thinkers, and creative leaders and presents their philosophies in simple and actionable terms that anyone ca put to good effect in their professional or personal lives from day one.

Rana Florida writes the Huffington Post column "Your Startup Life." CEO of Creative Glass Group, a consulting firm serving such clients as BMW Starwood, IBM, Philips Zappos and Johnson & Johnson. She has appeared on The Today Show and has been featured in The New York Times, and Fast Company. She previously served as Senior Director of Communications and Marketing at HMSHost (Host Marriott ServicesO, a $2 billlion dollar international organization in the travel industry working with hundreds of brands such as Starbucks, Tumi and Kenneth Cole.

Florida interview3ed successes from vastly different backgrounds and skills, and examined a host of other stand-outs in business and in life; her reseqarch concluded that there are seven key principles to achieving your business and life goals. UPGRADE examines these philosophies for living an Upgraded life starting with that first great step: Envisioning Your Future,

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